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...Free speech is necessary component of free society. But Matory’s resolution in favor of “civil dialogue” isn’t really about free speech at all. The actual text of the motion is only one sentence long, articulating the fairly uncontroversial belief “that this Faculty commits itself to fostering civil dialogue in which people with a broad range of perspectives feel safe and are encouraged to express their reasoned and evidence-based ideas.” Surely, not many members of Harvard’s faculty are opposed...
...seems to be a less pressing election issue than the economy or health care. Howard and Rudd are offering voters big tax cuts, and financial help with everything from first-home purchases to children's dentistry. Their rhetorical flourishes differ, but both are staking their political future on the belief that for now, at least, Australians fear storm clouds on the economic horizon more than their absence from the skies...
...enduring belief that it must stay in the forefront of changes in media has driven its growth. The Beeb ballooned in the 1990s, adding staff and diversifying its operations and output. In came the rolling news service BBC News24, along with a commercial arm, BBC Worldwide. In the drive for ratings, nobody stopped to ask if the corporation could sustain such growth or stretch itself in so many directions...
...Romney stands for anything, he stands for management consultantship. This is a belief that pragmatism and brainpower are superior to ideology in understanding the world, although this amounts to an ideology of its own. Romney went on and on about how much he loves "data." Give him a problem, give him the data, give him Jack Welch...
...Untitled” (Placebo – Landscape – For Roni) has two parenthetical names, which both suggest the psychological dialogue between the viewer and the piece. Placebos, typically sugar pills parading as medicine, only affect the body through the patient’s belief that the pill is an actual cure. A victim of AIDS, González-Torres was constantly facing thoughts of his own mortality. His work is both sensual and hopeful. The toffees have a placebo effect, changing the material candy into a more intangible and lasting connection between the viewer and Gonz?...